people place content communication harry potter & star wars are media neutral – books, movies, bcd, video game, toys, backpack why are people coming into the libraries? Use the computer, Internet access on laptop, to just read the newspaper in the company of others library as a third space’ library as a town activity center including things as swimming pool kathryn says academic libraries in australia are coordinating more and more with the other communities technology is evolving so fast, can we keep up? Do we feel like we are keeping up? What about the education gap not just for staff but for patrons as well? its ok to fail, you need time to play, its ok to play with things that dont work out learning needs to be a priority and management and staff need to make it a priority Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend
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Joshua M. Neff Speaks!
One more follow up to Library Camp Kansas, Joshua M. Neff was interviewed for LISNews. As one of the attendees I was really interested to hear his post unconference take on things. Take a listen! Again thank you to Brenda, Josh, Erin and Jason for organizing this wonderful event! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend
Library Camp Kansas Overview
Let me say upfront that Library Camp Kansas was a huge success! Everything went off a without a hitch and so many great ideas were exchanged! If you’re wondering where my notes are from Session 2, I didn’t take any, it happened over lunch and it wasn’t convenient to be eating and typing. Registration was from 9-10, at 10 the Unconference officially kicked off. Brenda Hough opened about a story on NPR Marketplace about an unconference where 80 people signed up and only 4 showed up. Lib Camp KS had about 100 people sign up and it looked like we were all there! Brenda talked about what would make the day a success attendees no keynote speaker no expert particpants need to be generous with experience, listening, asking questions share! A show of hands was taken to access which type of library we were from and there were attendees from all library types – Public, Special, Academic, School! We agreed on a tag for blog posts, photos, video etc LibCampKS08. Then it was time to decide the sessions. There would be three sessions during the day. People just shouted out what they wanted to talk about then that group was
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